Stall for buildings



May s, 1928. 1,669,203

' C. B. LAWTON STALL FOR BUILDINGS Filed Mal an 5 192'? a Sheets-Sheet 1awuentoz Patented May 8,1928.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE. K

CHARLES B. LAWTON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

STALL FOR BUILDINGS.

Application filed March 3, 1927. Serial No. 172,306;

This invention relates to stalls or compartments for buildings and hasspecial reference to stalls that may be used for the storage or safekeeping of automobiles and other types of vehicles, and various kinds ofmerchandise, the stalls being especially designed for,

movement of vehicles into and out of the stalls. It is in thisconnection that the stalls may be advantageously used in a garage orparking building with runways or aisles be tween the rows of stalls, andwith the stalls disposed at a right angle to one another and at lessthan a right angle to a runway or aisle, the run-ways or aisles may beof mini mum width, at least narrower than usual because a vehicle may bedriven direct into or out of a stall, without any greatturning ormanipulation in the runways or aisles. Ordinarily a stall is placed atva right angle to an aisle or drive-way and if the aisle or driveway isnarrow it is impossible to enter the stall or drive therefrom withoutmanip ulating the vehicle in the driveway or aisle. Consequentlydrivewaysand aisles are often madewide and occupy considerable space ina building or part thereof, which space can be saved byplacing thestalls at an obtuse angle to a driveway or stallso that a vehicle may bedirectly driven into the stall and as readily removed therefrom.

My invention further involves a building having superposed floors withzigzag walls and columns supporting the floors thezigzag walls coocrating with other walls or partitions in orming stalls having walls incommon with the zigzag wall forming the backbone of all of the stalls.This provides a herring bone arrangement of stalls and with such anarrangement in a garage there may be a maximum capacity in a minimumspace.

My invention will be hereinafter more fully described by aid of thedrawings, wherein Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional View of a buildingshowing arrangement of stalls;

Fig. 2 -is a horizontal sectionalview of a portion of one of the floorsof a building;

diagrammatically an and Fig. i is a vertical sectional view of a portionof the building, for instance taken on the line IV-JV of Fig. 3. e

In the drawings, I have illustrated a building which may represent aparking building or garage, terminal orother type of building in whichvehicles and loaded merchandise may be stored or temporarily" Fig. 3 isa similar View of adjacentjfloor,

placed for safe keeping. The building ineludes, by the way of anexample, outer walls 1 having suitable doorways and windows and betweenthe outer walls are superimposed floors 2 and 3. Thefioors 2 and 3 aresupported relative to one another by rows of zigzag walls 4 and by rowsof staggered columns 5 and 6 spaced from each side of each zigzag wall.

Between the rows of zigzag walls 4 there are drive-ways or aisles 7 andthere may be drive-ways, aisles, ramps or the like at the outer walls 1of the building, so that a vehicle may drive about on the floor andenter a desired aisle. In some instances there may be elevators forlifting vehicles to a desired floor.

Considering Figs. 2 and 8, it will be noted that the columns 5 and 6 arearranged with all the columns 6 in one row and all of the column 5 inanother row with the columns 5 and 6 placed in alinement with one of theangle portions 8 of the zigzag wall, so that the columns 5 and 6 may beconnected to each other and to the zigzag wall by partitions or walls 9and 1.0 as a continuation of the angular portion 8 of-the zigzag wall.This is on one side of the zigzag wall and on the opposite side thereofthe column and partitions aline with the other angular portion of thezigzag wall, thus utilizing the angular portions of the zigzag'wall informing theinner or rear walls of two stalls 11 and oi the wall and withall of the stalls bordering on the driveways and aisles a vehicle mayweight on the floor above.

be directly driven into or out 01 a stall without any hacking ormanipulation of the Vehicle in the aisle at the entrance of the stall.It is therefore obvious that a drive way or aisle may have an entranceat one end thereof and an exit at the opposite end, so that the driverof a vehicle can drive in one end of the aisle and direct into a stall.Backing out of the stall into the aisle it is advantageous to drive tothe exit end of the aisle. V

The columns 5 and 6 or opposed stall walls 9 and 10 may cooperate insupporting overhead doors It?) or other forms oi" closures for the outeropen ends of the stalls 11 and 12, andthe doors and walls may be of fireproof material with the zigzag wall preterably thicker or of greaterstrength than the stall walls or partitions in order to sustain Cingeuient he arr oi the columns is such asto support floors between thezigzag walls and with the column 6 at thesides of an aisle in staggeredrelation a vehicle can be readily driven into and out of the stalls. Bymaking the stalls on one floor the reverse of stalls on an adjoiningfloor the weight ofvehicles in the stalls is more evenly distributed,especially when the stall walls or partitions, 10 are constructed tocooperate with the columns. 7

l/Vhile in the drawings there is illustrated a preferred embodiment ofmy invention, it is to. be understood that the arrangement of the stallsand the construction of the building may be varied within the scope ofthe appended claims.

What I claim is 1. A building having a floor, a zigzag wall on saidfloor, and stall walls extending from opposite sides of said zigzag Walland providing stalls disposed at an angle to one another.

2. A building as called for in claim 1, wherein there are superposedfloors with the zigzag and stall walls connecting said floors.

A building having superposed floors, zigzag walls connecting said floorsand stall walls connecting said floors and extending from both sides ofsaid zigzag walls, all of said walls providing stalls with the stalls onone floor the reverse of the stalls on an adjacent floor.

4. A building as called for in claim 3, wherein the stall Walls are ineach side of each zigzag wall and provide rows of stalls.

On a floor, a zigzag wall, and stall walls aligning with angularportions of said zigzag wall at opposite sides of the wall and providingstalls disposed at a right angle to each other.

6. The combination of floors, a zigzag wall between said floors, columnsat each side of said wall and stall walls connecting said columns tosaid zigzag wall and cooperating therewith in forming stalls disposed atless than a right angle to the general direction of said zigzag wall.

7. Stalls disposed in rows with the rear wall of one stall forming partof the side wall or an adjoining stallf" 8. A. building having a floor,a zigzag wall on said floor, said wall extending upwardly to a higherlevel than the floor at both sides thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES B. LAWTON.

